L, T. - SUKGCO, FRIDAY. MOV. 1. 1935 EARTHQUAKE Just mention "earthquake” and "Hew York" in the same breath 'and the imagination immediately starts wobbling -- try­ ing to picture what would happen if a really violent trembler were to hit this concentrated mass of skyscrapers and cloud ^ piercing tov/ers. Just can’t imagine it. Last night1 s shake was the most severe Hew York has had in fifteen years* Yet, it was so slight as to do almost no damage. Many people didn't even know about it -- including yours truly. But, as nearby as Newark a house suddenly swayed to one side and les-ned over against another house. Upstate, in Jamestown, an auto was flung over in a ditch. And in the country around Syracuse, barnyard fowls flapped in wild panic. The patients in a hospital were awakened by the terrified screaming of wild pheasants in a field. And, a woman died of fright at Watertown, New York. Well, I've gone to headquarters -- scientific head­ quarters with a resounding name:- The division of Terrestrial EAETHC'UAKF - £ .5 Magnetism and Sei^mology^ United States Coast and Geodetic Survey * The chief of that all-inspiring haum of technology is Captain N. H. Heck, a research scientist whose job is to find out facts about earthquakes vhen they occur. Captain Heck is at a microphone in Washington right now. So let * s sv^itch over to the national capital. Captain Heck, mi 1*11 n^ ittw piraa-K*? tell us IS there1 s any likelihood of any more such earthquake shocks? CAPT. HECK: Only a foolish person ventures to predict earthquakes, since they are natural events far beyond the .pjawExia power of man to control or influence. We know’ .something, however, of the course of events immediately after an earthquake of this kind, and I venture to say that we will have other shocks in the general region of this one, but it is unlikely that any will be felt so far away as Washington and probably New York. The earthquake has been located in Canada , east of Lake Huron, nearly five hundred and fifty miles from Washington, and only a widespread earthquake is felt at such a distance. In any case we should KARTH;, UAMF - S expect similar earthquakes from time to time and buildings should be erected with possible earthquakes In mind. to 'Vd-Jl witag ETHIOPIA There’s a Mussolinian touch of the dramatic in the reported capture of the town of Makale by the Italians. This was one of the important and strategic objectives for General DeBono’s army. By taking itf the Italians score a success that makes the headlines. So they turn it into a bit of theatrical ism to impress the Ethiopians; Makale conquered by Has Gugsa. He was in command of the forces of native Askari troops that occupied the town. Yes, that same Ras Gugsa of Ethiopian royal blood, son-in-law of Haile Selassie - the one who made a sensation some weeks ago by deserting the Ethiopian cause and go ing over to the Italians, General DeBono made a big play at that time of honoring the royal Ras Gugsa, nominated him Governor of Tigre Province. How Ras Gugsa is given the further distinction of conquering Makale. Still - you could hardly call it conquering. The news dispatches tell no tales of bitter fighting. The town seems to have been abandoned by Haile Selassie’s men, just as we’ve been hearing for days. Moreover, there seems reason to ETHIOPIA - 2 believe that it was less of a permanent capture than a mere raid. The news comes from'English sources.. The official bulletins from Rome make no mention of the fall of Makale. But whether the place is in Italian hands or whether it was merely raided - Has Gugsa gets a chance to play the hero on his own ball field. DESLRTEB An interesting story is told by the one Italian prisoner who has appeared in Addis Ababa. He Is really a deserter, though a soldier from Italy. He 4s a Croatian, one of the diseontended Slavs from Flume, a city which was claimed by both Jugoslavia and Italy. He tells the Ethiopians that the Italians driving into southern Ethiopia, number no more than a mere ten thousand. Also - that they are suffering badly from thirst and heat. And he adds the Interesting detail that in those sun blistered lowlands the small Italian tanks are nothing better than ovens. The n p ■- i r q J2 a *S~G- — —* tropical sun beating on the metal almost boils the men inside ! There are two hotels, in Rome with interesting names Just now. One is the Hotel England, the other is the Hotel Ed in, reminding the Homans that Captain Ant non y Eden, Britain's delegate to Geneva, has Been the most aggressive advocate of those sanctions against Italy. Well, there were more student demonstrations in Rome today. The rioters descended on the Hotel England .and made the manager hang a large Italian flag over the word - "EnglandM. As for Hotel Eden, they yelled and stormed, threw atones and broke windows. And heavy forces of Fascist police are guarding the British Embassy. Meanwhile, Baron Aidisi has hurried to Geneva to do what he can. He's there to negotiate, to try to get a peace agreement before the sanctions go into effect. An Italian spokesman put it. this way today! "Italy does not refuse to negotiate for peace, but we are not running after peace." League proceedings got nowhere today. They were discussing the question of financial compensation for the CRISIS - 2 C smaller nations, which have money due from Italy and stand to lose financially by boycotting. They want some cash in return. And who will fork over the cash? The League has put it up to a committee. As for opinion in England, we have a cool reasoned statement from an American just in from abroad - my Dutchess County neighbor, Casey Hogate, head of Dow, Jones & Company and publisher of the Wall Street Journal, Publisher Hogate is quoted by the Wall Street Journal today as declaring that he comes home convinced that there is a minimum probability of ^another world war. (But, he adds: "I am not ao confident that England herself will stop shore of any measures that may \be required to protect the empire. **) He found a general idealism toward the League in England. "But" he adds, "under­ neath this is the distinct feeling that no challenge to British imperial interest can be tolerated," CHIHA Twenty-six years ago, in March of 1909, a dramatic event occurred in the then Imperial City of the Dragon Throne, troubled end. On the Dragon Throne sat a small boy, the Emperor Hsuan Tung, later to be the exiled Henry Pui Yi, no n Khang Teh* Administering for the boy emperor was the regent, Prince Chun. There was an attempted assassination, a yeung revolutionary student tried to hill Prlnoe Chun. first jumped into prominence. Another time his revolutionary organization commanded him to blow up Prince Tsai Lan, one of the most formidable and ferocious of the Manchus. Wang and five com­ panions got into Tsai Lan^ house one night, placed a bomb and lit the fuse, to blow up the whole place. But the sputtering of the fuse aroused a dog, which gave the alarm* The burning fuse was put out, and Wang was caught. He was sentenced to be beheaded. The fierce old Manchu, Prince Tsai, was also something of a philosopher. He wanted to know shy Wang had tried to blow That's how, as a would-be assassin, Wang Ching-We1, CHINA -2 him all the way to him Celestial ancestors. So he asked Wang# The shrewd young revolutionary told the Prince that his motive* were so complicated the reply could only be written. So the prince told him to write it before he was decapitated. Wang proceeded to write a masterpiece, in such beautiful prose that Prince Tsai decreed that it would be wrong for such a literatus to lose his head. He commuted the sentence to imprisonment, but Wang soon escaped from Jail#^The Chinese came to say that Wang's life was guarded by the gods# He became known as the handsomest ——- VwrvO man and \,he most incorrigible revolutionary in the Celestial land^ Tonight^Wang Ching-Wei, Premier of China, lies criti­ cally wounded in a Nanking hospital. This time he's the victim of a would-be assassin# Today nine men were arrested, suspected of complicity in the melodramatic shooting. It is still unknown whether the assassin himself, or was shot down by the fusillade the guards fired. But his identity has been established, after some \ confusion. He m Sun Mingh Sun, a Chinese newspaper reporter j A for Chin Kwang News Agency. His affiliations are still obscure h CHINA - 3 but he is believed to have been a member of the Communist anti- Japanese opposition. There* e an ominous internalional angle to that wild scene. Military and political chiefs in the Nationalist Government gathered to debate those hard demands that Japan is making in Northern China. Prominent officials grouped in front of the government building to be photographed. A crowd of spectators watching as the photographers snapped their pictures. Then one of the spectators whipping out a pistol and blazing away. The Premier and three other officials shot down. More crashing of shots as the guards fired on the assassin. And a wild scurrying to cover as the a*owd sought safety from the hail of bullets. .Bullets shot at the pro-Japanese Premier were also bullets shot at Japan, (is it an indication of dangerous revol­ utionary anger among the Chinese masses, resentment against the policy of concessions to Tokyo?) Are the Chinese masses ready for an anti-Japanese outbreak and boiling over? Those are questions that impelled Tokyo to announce today that the shooting of Wang Ohing Wei is of serious consequence to the peace of Asia. I: N v'.- UP Word comes of a wedding celebrated in the ancient city of Dsnsscus. The bridegroom wasn*t there. The bride vras anonymous, her name not given./^By referring these singular facts to the ways and customs of the Bedouins of the Arabian desert, we can ft A cescCcertain The bridegroom must be an important personage. You can guess that, because the marriage was-by proxy. Forty of the most renowned sheiks of the desert represented the bridegroom^-who — wasn11—there. Yes, an Important personage - none other than the v mighty Ibn Baud, renowned as & conquering king of the Nomad tribes, equally renowned as a conquering husband. He has had a hundred wives. This newest bride makes it-a hundred and one. The fact that the bride wa-s anonymous, her name not mentioned, is significant too. It means she is no young fresh cheeked rSuelika. Her years are mature. And she kaxxx is a spinster. laecsws* iStfiE an Arabian custom not to give out the name of a A .L bride.- when she is of spinster years, ««jid we also infer that when so greatly celebrated a poiontate makes an absentee marriage to a camels-hair^tent^old^maid, why itrs no light affair of fancy. There must be weighty.political reasons for it. And there are. im. GAUD ~ £ I bn baud ^eg an life a.s a wandering exile ? a giants six feet four, in stature. He won his way to power by the sword - also by marriage. He)has consolidated his imperial sway by making matrimonial alliances with the daughters and sisters of the sheiks of powerful tribes. So marriage is just a branch of Y h diplomacy with Ibn Saud.^Hence his hundred and one wives - they mean a hundred and one diplomatic victories <? •) And that’s the case with the latest^) The diplomatic angle 14 is the fact that Emir Nawaf El Shaalan is Sheik of the^Rualla tribe,. he. Huai, The Ruallas are many and powerful. Emir Nawaf El Shaalan had: an unnamed spinster daughter. I bn Sand has married her, ,7vdr W k S- ol Itj? IBN SAUP - 2 RETAKE Ibn Baud/began life as a wandering exile, a giant. six feet four, in stature. He won his way to power by the sword - also by marriage, fig^has consolidated his imperial sway by making matrimonial alliances with the daughters and sisters of the sheiks of powerful tribes. So marriage is just a branch of Y h diplomacy with Ibn Saud, ^Hence his hundred and one wives - they mean a hundred and one diplomatic victories (? •) And that's the case with the latest^ The diplomatic angle is the fact that Emir Mawaf El Shaalan is Sheik of the Bual Rualla tribe. Thu Ruallas are many and powerful. Emir Nawaf El Shaalan had an unnamed spinster daughter. Ibn Sand has married her. Wi. G-MEN Another one of those manhunt stories, pathetic it is. The public enemy in this case is no cold blooded gunman, but just a colored man down in Tennessee. We'll call him "Memphis" for short. Memphis made a slight mistake when he signed his name to a check for Sixty Dollars, The worst of it was that it was a government check. So this put the ease in the hands of the dreaded G-Men, When "Memphis" learned that the G-Men were after him, he started traveling. He could see a G-Man around every corner. Actually, J. Edgar Hoover's federal agents were not exactly giving their undivided time and attention to the pursuit of "Memphis", But the colored man didn't know it* He was on the run. He just lifted 'em up and put 'em down. Now the manhunt has ended, "Memphis" dragged his steps into the headquarters of the G-Men, and panted; "Here I is," But he was hardly himself, "Memphis" had lost twenty three pounds 1 if ten ’em up and puttin' 'em down, "Boss", he gasped, "I'se all tired out, running away from where you all ain't," AUTQUOI'IUi. Here * s a question that nearly everybody will answer in the same way. What industry is leading the ray out of the de­ pression? The automobile industry. And ^-Ijo yru thinlt "it oul»* bo a—tn omsh Do you think it would, be a good idea to kill off the leader in the march back to prosperity? Thatls the interesting angle propounded by John T. Flynn in COLLIER'S WEEKLY. He states it in an article on gasoline taxes. 4Sfj?oints out that .the hugejfcjr increasing imposts on motor fuel are a dangerous handicap to the whole automobile industry - a heavy blow at the depression-fighting champion. Flynn in COLLIER'S points to'Decatur, Alabama car owners get soaked the hardest of -all. The average value automobiles down that way is about Two hundred Dollars The car owner, when he buys a gallon of gasoline, has to pay One Cent in tax to the federal government. Six Cents to the state. Three Cents to Limestone County, and Two Cents to the Town of Decatur. Twelve Cents in all. A gallon costs him Twenty-five Cents altogether, nearly fifty, per cent of which is tax. Add to AUTCMOBILE - 2 that the taxea on the car it self, on tires and on spare parts, and the figures work out an average of a hundred and fifteen Dollars a year -- all on a Two hundred Dollar automobilei That caps a gawdy climax in the political sport of -- soak the poor motorist. DOCTOR CHILE I 1 A lot of news has been coming from that Twenty-fifth Annual Congress of the American College of Surgeons, which is in session out in San Francisco. Three thousand surgeons are gathered there. The famous Dr. George Crile of Cleveland described to his associates today how on one of his expeditions into Africa he discovered that the leap of the lion — that wild bound when the King of animals comes flying through the air at you — is all because of the large amount of adrenal secreted in the lion*s glands. And that makes the lion mx jump. And what makes me jump is the second hand on this studio clock, which tells me that it’s time to say —• SO LONG UNTIL MONDAY* i I